HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/26/17

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/26/17

Every Tuesday on HardRockDaddy.com. The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions. It also features opinion pieces on chart action and the music business in general.

Many of the artists featured on the Active Rock charts have already been reviewed on HardRockDaddy.com.

QUARTERLY REPORTS…

The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 8/26/17. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

CHART

CHART

ARTIST

SONG TITLE

RADIO

POSITION

POSITION

SPINS

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

THIS WEEK

1

2

RISE AGAINST

“The Violence”

1868

2

1

ROYAL BLOOD

“Lights Out”

1865

3

3

GRETA VAN FLEET

“Highway Tune”

1742

4

4

HIGHLY SUSPECT

“Little One”

1693

5

7

I PREVAIL

“Alone”

1428

6

8

PAPA ROACH

“American Dreams”

1358

7

5

STONE SOUR

“Song #3”

1326

8

9

NOTHING MORE

“Go To War”

1311

9

10

IN THIS MOMENT

“Oh Lord”

1244

10

6

FOO FIGHTERS

“Run”

1210

11

12

HELLYEAH

“Love Falls”

1070

12

11

GREEN DAY

“Revolution Radio”

948

13

14

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

“The Way You Used To Do”

849

14

13

METALLICA

“Now That We’re Dead”

807

15

20

THEORY OF A DEADMAN

“Rx”

777

16

16

NINE INCH NAILS

“Less Than”

741

17

19

PROPHETS OF RAGE

“Living On The 110”

722

18

18

ROYAL REPUBLIC

“Baby”

712

19

15

BEARTOOTH

“Sick Of Me”

691

20

21

KID ROCK

“Greatest Show On Earth”

570

21

22

FOZZY

“Judas”

565

22

23

KORN

“Black Is The Soul”

552

23

24

MASTODON

“Steambreather”

513

24

17

PRETTY RECKLESS

“Back To The River” (f. W. Haynes)

437

25

34

SEETHER

“Betray And Degrade”

363

26

26

STARSET

“Satellite”

350

27

25

SHAMAN’S HARVEST

“The Come Up”

291

28

28

SKILLET

“The Resistance”

290

29

29

BUSH

“The Beat Of Your Heart”

266

30

32

DED

“Remember The Enemy”

249

31

33

BLACKTOP MOJO

“Where The Wind Blows”

241

32

35

PALAYE ROYALE

“Get Higher”

209

33

37

WAYLAND

“Through The Fire”

168

34

30

THRICE

“Hurricane”

168

35

44

THROUGH FIRE

“Where You Lie”

157

36

38

RANCID

“Bovver Rock And Roll”

155

37

39

CHEAP TRICK

“Long Time Coming”

154

38

45

HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD

“California Dreaming”

150

39

0

FOO FIGHTERS

“The Sky Is A Neighborhood”

149

40

36

MUSE

“Dig Down”

145

41

40

DOROTHY

“Down To The Bottom”

141

42

31

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979

“Freeze Me”

134

43

43

RIGHTEOUS VENDETTA

“Weight Of The World”

110

44

65

10 YEARS

“Novacaine”

107

45

49

IMAGINE DRAGONS

“Thunder”

102

46

42

OTHERWISE

“Angry Heart”

101

47

47

SEPERATIONS

“Exist”

97

48

48

THE BLOOY BEETROOTS + JET

“My Name Is Thunder”

93

49

55

VYCES

“Nocturnal”

90

50

46

DEADSET SOCIETY

“Like A Nightmare”

86

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)

TRIVIUM – “The Heart From Your Hate”

While many active rock bands these days find their sound and stay within a pretty narrow pocket, Trivium continues to remain relevant in the format while evolving with each record. Some fans may find the evolution a bit dizzying, but to me, the band is just keeping things interesting. The one constant is the quality of the songs and the meaningful lyrics, regardless of the musical direction. “The Heart From Your Hate” is likely to have a feeling of familiarity to active rock fans, but not necessarily because they of previous releases from Trivium. The opening guitar riff, which carries throughout the song, is reminiscent of Avenged Sevenfold’s “Hail To The King,” while the song structure and vocal style (particularly in the chorus) conjures up thoughts of Gemini Syndrome’s “Remember We Die.” Both of the aforementioned songs happen to be personal favorites, so there are no complaints here. Hopefully, Trivium’s latest single will receive enough traction to battle for the top spot in the near future. The song is that good.

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

The only sure prediction in recent times is unpredictability. It looked like Rise Against was going to peak at #2 as momentum stalled. The next threat to Royal Blood seemed to be Greta Van Fleet, who still had enough ground to make up to ensure at least a few more weeks at the top for Royal Blood. After a week of significant spin decline for the former #1, they were dethroned by Rise Against who had enough of an increase to surpass Royal Blood by a mere three spins. That’s the closest margin that has occurred in recent memory. With Greta Van Fleet now trailing by only 125 spins or so, there’s a chance that they reach the top as soon as next week. Of course, there’s a chance that they start to drop next week. Time will tell. One thing that seems likely is a continued rise towards the top for Nothing More’s latest single, “Go To War.”

HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless)

Each week, we will share the songs that we think should be added to rotations, alongside the songs that we feel should be dropped from rotations, either because they are a bad fit for the format, or because they have run their course and it’s time for a new single from the artist.

SPIN IT…

TRIVIUM – “The Heart From Your Hate”

ART OF ANARCHY – “Echo Of A Scream”

DEMON HUNTER – “Raining Down”

MANAFEST – “House Of Cards”

STONE HORSES – “Reckless Ways”

NO RESOLVE – “Love Me to Death”

VAJRA – “The Mirror”

SCREAMING FOR SILENCE – “House Of Glass”

DROP IT…

Death From Above 1979 – “Freeze Me”

Imagine Dragons – “Thunder”

QOTSA – “The Way You Used To Do”

Muse – “Dig Down”

Nine Inch Nails – “Less Than”

Royal Blood – “Lights Out”

Green Day – “Revolution Radio”

Highly Suspect – “Little One”

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

While the margin at the top was razor thin, the gap between the Top 10 and the rest of the chart is sizable (around 20% difference in spins between 10 and 11), doing much to explain why this week’s Top 10 has the same songs as last week’s…

Kid Rock backs into the Top 20, gaining a chart position despite losing a minor amount of spins from last week…

Seether and Ded arrive in the Top 30 with their latest singles…

Through Fire leads three songs into the Top 40, including the week’s highest debuting track from Foo Fighters…

10 Years has the only other true debut of the week, cracking the Top 50 in advance of their official going-for-adds date.

THREE UP & THREE DOWN

RISING

Greta Van Fleet – “Highway Tune”

Nothing More – “Go To War”

Theory Of A Deadman – “Rx”

FALLING

Stone Sour – “Song #3”

Foo Fighters – “Run”

Pretty Reckless – “Back To The River”

TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS

Maybe the third time is the charm. At least Los-Angeles band Vyces has to hope so. Their re-entry at #49 this week marks the third appearance on the chart for “Nocturnal.” The song previously debuted at #49 back in late July, then fell off of the published chart for two weeks, returned at #50 two weeks ago, fell off the Top 50 again, and now makes another return. Hopefully (for their sake) a solid gain in spins indicates enough momentum for the song to stick around longer this time.

WRAP-UP

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